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Information theft is on the rise. People are particularly vulnerable after natural disasters

September 5, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) – Information theft is on the rise. Over 1.1 million people in the U.S. alone reported the crime to the Federal Trade Commission in 2022. When a thief opens accounts in your name or otherwise uses your […]

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Court revives doctors’ lawsuit saying FDA overstepped its authority with anti-ivermectin campaign

September 4, 2023

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal appeals court Friday revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority in a campaign against treating COVID-19 with the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. Ivermectin is commonly used […]

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US will regulate nursing home staffing for first time, but proposal lower than many advocates hoped

September 4, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) – The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths. While such regulation has been sought for decades […]

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Medicines360’s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth control

September 3, 2023

(AP) – Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market. One of them is Medicines360, which in […]

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Teen arrested in fatal shooting of 16-year-old during Oklahoma high school football game

August 31, 2023

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old at an Oklahoma high school football game, the authorities said Wednesday. Deputies working with other law enforcement agencies took the boy into custody […]

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States at the forefront of fights over wetlands protections after justices slash federal rules

August 30, 2023

(AP) A month after the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the federal government’s power to oversee wetlands, the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature handed state agencies an order: Don’t give the ecologically crucial waters any more protection than newly weakened federal […]

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Hurricane Idalia unleashes fury on Florida and Georgia, swamping a wide stretch of coast

August 30, 2023

PERRY, Fla. (AP) – Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning streets into rivers, unmooring small boats and downing […]

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Victim identified, suspect charged in fatal UNC-Chapel Hill shooting

August 29, 2023

Zijie Yan, an associate professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s department of applied physical sciences, was shot and killed on campus Monday. Photo: www.unc.edu NC Newsline UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Tailei Qi, 34, has been charged with first degree murder in Monday’s […]

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Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings

August 29, 2023

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – A white man wearing a mask and firing a weapon emblazoned with a swastika gunned down three Black people Saturday in a racist attack in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then […]

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Medicaid expansion won’t begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1 because there’s still no final budget

August 29, 2023

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – With the state budget’s passage now two months late, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration announced Monday that it can’t start the implementation of Medicaid expansion to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults in the early […]

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